Delayed on British Airways from Heathrow to Los Angeles International?
£520each if you land 3 hours or more late
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- Flights a year
- 2,080
- Landed on time
- 75.0%
- Land 3 hrs or more late
- 15a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
Leaving Heathrow
£520each under UK law
Leaving Los Angeles International
£520each under UK law
Los Angeles International is outside the UK and EU, so coming back this only applies if a UK or EU airline operated the flight.
Heathrow to Los Angeles International is 8,760 km, which fixes the figure: £520 each leaving Heathrow, and the same £520 each coming back if a UK or EU airline operated the flight. It is per person, so four of you is £2,080.
How British Airways does on this route
Better or worse than the route itself?
Everyone flying Heathrow to Los Angeles International hits the same airspace and the same two airports, so the honest question is not whether the route is busy, it is whether this airline handles it better or worse than the others on it.
On this route British Airways is 4.2 points worse than the other airlines flying it.
Against its own network it is about the same as usual: British Airways lands on time 76.4% of the time across all 309,084 of its UK flights a year, against 75.0% here.
In money terms: about 15 flights a year on this route land 3 hours or more late, which is about 1 flight in 140. Everyone on board one of those is owed £520 each, so a full aircraft is a five-figure bill for British Airways.
Other airlines on this route
Same two airports, same 8,760 km, same £520.
Everything we hold on Heathrow to Los Angeles International · British Airways across every UK airport
Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, July 2025 to June 2026. Analysis by CheckFlightCompensation; the CAA is credited as the data source as its publication conditions require. Figures cover the 25 largest UK airports. Methodology and limitations.